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camping yesterday was too long. Of course we wound 

 them up again, but the only tiling I can now do to find 

 Greenwich mean time is take a time-observation and an 

 observation for latitude, and then estimate the approxi- 

 mate distance from our turning-point on April 8th, when 

 I took the last observation for longitude. By this means 

 the error will hardly be great. 



" I conclude that we have not gone less than 14 miles 

 a day on an average the last three days, and have 

 consequently advanced 40 or more miles in a direction 

 S. 22" W, (magnetic). When we stopped here yesterday 

 ' Barbara ' was killed. These slaughterings are not very 

 pleasant episodes. Clear weather ; at 6.30 this morning 

 — 22° Fahr. { — ^p' C) ; wind south (6 to 9 feet). 



"April 14th. Easter-day. We were unfortunate with 

 lanes yesterday, and they forced us considerably out of 

 our course. We were stopped at last by a particularly 

 awkward one, and after I had gone alongside it to find a 

 crossino- for some distance without success, I thouofht we 

 had better, in the circumstances, pitch our tent and have 

 a festive Easter-eve. In addition, I wished to reckon out 

 our latitude, longitude, our observation for time, and our 

 variation ; it was a question of getting the right time 

 again as quickly as possible. The tent up, and Johansen 

 attending to the dogs, I crept into the bag ; but lying 

 thawing in this frozen receptacle, with frozen clothes 

 and shoes, and simultaneously working out an observa- 

 tion and looking up logarithms, with tender, frost-bitten 



